Baked Goods Utopia - Chocolate Genoise Cake

Mmmmm oh man...oh man...oh man...just looking at that picture makes me feel like I'm running through candyland, in the heavenly cakes district, just south of the oreo milkshake cascades. That cake is the Chocolate Genoise Cake, and I made it. That is a picture I took, the only thing that didn't turn out the way it was supposed to was the chocolate mousse, which as you can see, is a bit runny. Nonetheless it was delicious. You soak the bottom half of the cake(can't see it due to the mousse oozing over it like delicious lava seeping out of a chocolate volcano) in an orange sauce, which essentially is just orange juice. It works out great, makes it taste like one of those chocolate oranges, the only fruit I eat. This cake was made from scratch, here is the recipe. I'll warn you in advance, it is quite complicated and the cake can be ruined if you don't know what your doing. If you compare my cake to the one in the recipe site, you'll see mine is much flatter and the mousse is runny. But my lessons were learned, and my next sponge cake will be better than taking ecstasy before running down a hallway full of rotating pillars made of feathers that brush against your skin ever so gently.


You gotta let the cake sit in the fridge over night, so this pic was taken the morning after. The EARLY morning after. I don't feel comfortable having any pics of my niece on the web so I blocked her face out. Shes in it cause she kinda help make it, but not really as I didn't trust her ability to bake. I mean, a woman's primary calling in life is to cook and what not, but when it comes down to cooking fantastic top-of-the-line meals and desserts, it takes the expertise of a man. Look at all the great chefs in the world, their guys. Rachel Ray and Giada De Laurentiis are only popular cause they're hot. But they're food is equivalent to that which you'd expect from a three star restaurant, not a four star one, the ones where a man is the head chef.